- a variation of embarkation.
embarcation
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This week the volunteers were packing up for embarcation at Buenaventura.
From Time Magazine Archive
A railway line connected with the South-Eastern and Chatham system runs to its head, and in July 1903 it was brought into use for the embarcation of passengers by transatlantic liners.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
In spite of the inclemency of the weather a crowd of old and young had assembled on the beach to witness their embarcation, and bid them farewell.
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Susanna Moodie
The salary commencing from the hour of embarcation.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow
Masulipatam was also a port of embarcation for the East and was connected with Broach by a trade route running through Tagara, now Têr in the Nizam's dominions.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
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